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Who has more fans

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BIGGER FAN BASE

  • OSU

    Votes: 83 79.0%

  • ND

    Votes: 22 21.0%
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If you mean fans who actively support & follow their team? It's not even close...Ohio State

If you mean "fans" who will pick a team on a survey just because they've heard of them...then ND probably gets teh win.


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How can you live with yourself NDC?!
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You killed Charlie Weis?!

You bastard!
 
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I think asking an off the street Notre Dame "fan" to name five players is a little unfair, you should probably start with something a little easier like, "What state is Notre Dame located in." From my experience it is Catholics who don't fallow football that tend to root for Notre Dame, not Catholics in general (among the real catholic football fans location seems to be a bigger factor in who they root for than religion). So, if you count these name recognition type fans then yes ND probably wins but if you count actual fans who fallow the team then the Buckeye Nation wins hands down. Basically the question boils down to what you personally consider to be a fan.
 
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Ginn4Heisman20 said:
I think asking an off the street Notre Dame "fan" to name five players is a little unfair, you should probably start with something a little easier like, "What state is Notre Dame located in." From my experience it is Catholics who don't fallow football that tend to root for Notre Dame, not Catholics in general (among the real catholic football fans location seems to be a bigger factor in who they root for than religion). So, if you count these name recognition type fans then yes ND probably wins but if you count actual fans who fallow the team then the Buckeye Nation wins hands down. Basically the question boils down to what you personally consider to be a fan.
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Now that I'll buy. But I'll say it again, my area of Ohio (Mercer county) is 75% Catholic (at least), and easily 75% Buckeye fans. scUM is in 2nd place, not ND. I don't know one Irish fan, save for my cousin who went there and his parents.
 
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JCOSU86 said:
Now that I'll buy. But I'll say it again, my area of Ohio (Mercer county) is 75% Catholic (at least), and easily 75% Buckeye fans. scUM is in 2nd place, not ND. I don't know one Irish fan, save for my cousin who went there and his parents.
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I went to catholic school for 12 years, and I couldn't name 2 Notre ame fans I went to school with....unless you count the girls who were HUGE Notre ame fans, but couldn't tell a touchdown from a dingleberry.
 
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Here's an interesting graphic and story I found in ESPN's archive:

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On or off? On or off? That bandwagon's confused people.



<TABLE id=inlinetable cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=3 width=250 align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TH style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000">
Who's watching​






</TH><TR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ececec" vAlign=top><TD width=234>Number of homes that have watched Notre Dame football over the life of the NBC deal.
Year.....Households.....Record
1991.....4.5 million.....10-3
1992.....4.4 million.....10-1-1
1993.....6.2 million.....11-1-0
1994.....4.2 million.....6-5-1
1995.....4.6 million.....9-3
1996.....3.3 million.....8-3
1997.....2.9 million.....7-6
1998.....2.8 million.....9-3
1999.....2.7 million.....5-7
2000.....3.3 million.....9-3
2001.....2.5 million.....5-6
2002.....3.3 million.....10-3
2003.....2.6 million.....5-7
2004.....2.5 million.....6-6
2005.....3.6 million.....9-3
Source: Nielsen Media Research



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Go figure that last year's waking of the echoes spurred a ratings resurgence:


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</TD></TR><TR><TD><!--startclickprintinclude-->[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Notre Dame's NBC Telecasts Rise 44%[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]John Consoli[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]NOVEMBER 22, 2005 -

[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The Notre Dame football telecasts on NBC this season recorded a 3.6 household rating, 9 share, the highest season average rating in more than a decade, and a 44 percent increase over last season.

Notre Dame is 8-2 this season and ranked the highest its been in years. The highest season Notre Dame rating on NBC prior to this season was in 1995, when the network recorded a 4.8. [/FONT]
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I don't get why non-domer catholics get all bent out of shape when somebody says catholics like NA. they aren't saying every catholic like's NA, they're saying the stupid catholics who don't really have a team just take up NA because it's a catholic school.

of course half of ohio catholics aren't NA fans, they live in a state where there's one big time school that everybody loves.
 
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